lucasdp wrote:I enjoyed it the few times I got to play it, but I've had trouble keeping others interested in it, especially after we played Zombicide.
They're quite different games, of course, but I think they both do a decent job of simulating the "Zombie movie" feeling. However, many in my gaming group prefer co-op over competitive, so I think that's why Zombicide was a bigger hit and has gotten more plays.
Yeah, at the time that the 1st Ed. came out there were only a few Zombie games on the market, and none as well developed as Zombies!!! I only kept up through 3.5, but that was enough to have a pretty expansive game when the 3 core sets were combined. At some point my group just stopped playing it. This was around 2002 or so maybe? Back then TCInc was still a tiny company and the online community was fairly interactive with the Devs and vise versa--I don't know if that is still the case or not.
I think Munchkin took over as the semi co-op take-that game for us as my Daughter was using it to learn to Read! Anyway, we just never went back to Zombies!!! I still have all of my 1st Ed. stuff (Somewhere in a box), and I have fond memories of the game. Particularly some of the nifty Fan-made missions TCInc used to host on their site (maybe still do?).
In fact, I held off on Zombicide for ~ 2 years because I thought I had my "Zombie Game" covered for the collection... Then I played Zcide and have really never looked back. My son plays the App version of Zombies!!! on the iPad and enjoys it. But he likes Zcide better.
I hadn't thought about this game in the context of "it existed for several years before Zombicide." Yeah, I'm sure for several years, Z!!! was likely the "best" zombie game out there. But we've all seen what's happened with that theme since then... 
